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Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale

Thelma Harms, Debby Cryer, Richard M. Clifford

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Great Tool 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This is a great tool for self evaluation as well as peer or program review for the early childhood care and education professional.

Lost item 1 out of 5 stars.
0 of 7 people found this review helpful.

I purchased this item on 28 Feb 2007 and now it is 30 Mar 2007 and I still have not received the book.

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The ITERS-R is a thorough revision of the widely used program quality assessment instrument, The Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale. Designed for use in center-based child care programs for infants and toddlers up to 30 months of age, the ITERS-R can be used by program directors for supervision and program improvement, by teaching staff for self-assessment, by agency staff for monitoring, and in teacher training programs.

Book Crush: For Kids and Teens - Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Interest

Nancy Pearl

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Parents, teachers, and librarians are often puzzled by the seemingly endless choices for reading material for young people. What’s good, what’s trash, what’s going to hold their interest? Nancy Pearl, America’s favorite librarian, has read widely in all the genres and happily points the way in Book Crush. Divided into three sections — Easy Books, Middle-Grade Readers, and Young Adult — Book Crush makes wonderful reading connections by theme, setting, voice, and ideas. For horse lovers, Pearl recalls the classics (Black Beauty, Misty of Chincoteague), but in a creative twist connects Mr. Revere and I to the list. For middle-grade readers, she explores updated retellings of Greek myths and the best coming-of-age stories. Young adult readers get to know chick lit and much more. For those adults who feel stuck in a rut with Caldecott and Newberry winners and the ubiquitous Harry Potters, this fun, informed book offers new ways to stimulate young readers.

The New Rules of College Admissions: Ten Former Admissions Officers Reveal What It Takes to Get into College Today

Stephen Kramer; Michael London

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Read this book before applying for college 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 11 people found this review helpful.

The best thing about this book is that it tells you what colleges NOT to apply to. It shows you how to match your GPA/SAT scores with colleges that are looking for students in that range. If your GPA is 3.2 and you want to go to Stanford, you are not going to get accepted so don't waste your time, emotions and money applying there. Look for colleges who take 3.2 GPA students. It also cautions you against applying to schools whose GPA range is way lower than yours. The authors suggest that you will be bored in such a school.

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Getting into and paying for college has never been harder. Now America’s number one educational consulting company offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on how to find, apply, get accepted to, and pay for college.

Stephen Kramer and Michael London, the founders of College Coach, have gathered a team of former admissions officers to share the ten key elements of the college process, from planning high-school courses and activities, through the college application process, to paying for college. In each chapter, counselors share advice and insights as well as case studies that help the parent and student create an action plan unique to their situation.

Parents have paid up to $8,000 for College Coach’s services with its astounding eighty percent success rate—guidance that is now available in this comprehensive guide.

Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit All

Gayle H. Gregory, Carolyn Chapman

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Great recommendation for any teacher 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 12 people found this review helpful.

Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit All by Gayle Gregory, and Carolyn Chapman is great tool to compliment any teacher's personal resource library. As a novice to teaching and classroom instruction, I found this book to be very enlightening. The discussion of standards based classrooms, student expectations, multicultural & student diversity, cognitive variation, as well as societal and technological change is threaded though this book. This book defines a simple educational philosophy that success for any teacher is through assessment, effective planning, and effective strategical implementation to measure student performance. Today's classroom demands ongoing cirriculum development and adaptation to classroom instuction through best practices. The techniques in this book outlines a learner's needs, creating a receptive climate for learning, assessment, as well as various innovative strategies for cirriculum success.

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Here is the practical process teachers can use to adjust learning based on individual students’ knowledge, skills, experience, preferences, and needs. The most recent and best practices in pedagogy are discussed, including:

• Creating a climate for learning
• Knowing the learner
• Assessing the learner
• Adjusting, compacting, and grouping
• Instructional strategies for student success

. . . along with a variety of curriculum approaches, complete with explanations and examples. It’s an important resource for any teacher, new or experienced, who wants to help every student in the classroom learn and succeed.

Power Standards: Identifying the Standards that Matter the Most

Larry Ainsworth

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Revolutionary teaching! 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

The concepts in this book, along with those found in Larry's other book, Unwrapping the Standards, can revolutionize the way state standards are met in the classroom. I recently had the honor of meeting Larry in person and taking a four day workshop from him. He is a wonderful human being who is passionate about teaching children in a manner that actually matters. I have implemented some of Larry's strategies in my own classroom, and my students found them engaging and exciting. These books are well written and packed with information. Although I would recommend taking a workshop from Larry in order to make the best use of the books, one could certainly read the books independently and use them effectively.

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Power Standards is a step-by-step, practical manual that explains how educators can distinguish the Power Standards--standards that are absolutely necessary for student success--from those that are nice to know. Larry Ainsworth shows all educators not only how to create a prioritized subset of their own state or district standards, but also how to use these Power Standards to guide the development of meaningful curriculum and assessment. The straightforward and easy-to-read format enables readers to immediately apply these proven, practical strategies and to significantly improve achievement for all students--by first identifying the standards that matter the most!

Teachers, Schools and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education with Bind-in Online Learning Center Card with free Student Reader CD-ROM

David M. Sadker, Karen Zittleman

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New First Edition 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

The other reviews for this are for the old edition and not the Brief Introduction to Education, so please be aware that the date of the reviews is before this text was published.

In reading the other reviews, it was obvious that the reviewers missed the point of the text--it is to be used in an introductory course, not in a course where preservice or practicing teachers would be designing lessons and units.

This text provides a great overview of the educational issues and problems that someone contemplating becoming a teacher needs to know about before investing time, energy, and money into obtaining certification. The brief version is much better, more up-to-date and student friendly than the original text by Sadker and Sadker.

For anyone contemplating being a teacher, the issues presented in this text may help you decide if you really have what it takes to be a classroom teacher. It gives an overview of the political, economic, and social issues facing educators as well as the historic perspective of American Education.

Well worth the cost.

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Combining the brevity of a streamlined Introduction to Education text with the support package of a much more expensive book, the brief edition of Teachers, Schools, and Society encourages experienced instructors to explore their own creativity while ensuring that newer faculty can teach the course with confidence. David Sadker�s and Karen Zittleman�s lively writing style captures the joys and challenges of teaching. The text stresses the importance of fairness and justice in school and society, focuses on the most crucial topic areas, and integrates the most current issues in education. In addition, the wealth of activities included--from online video observations to portfolio-building exercises--offers a broad range of ways to introduce students to the teaching profession.

The Art of Classroom Inquiry: A Handbook for Teacher-Researchers

Ruth Shagoury Hubbard, Brenda Miller Power

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Groundbreaking when first published, The Art of Classroom Inquiry has become the classic book on the subject, helping tens of thousands of preservice and inservice teachers discover successful ways to conduct research in their classrooms. Thoroughly updated to reflect current thinking and technologies, this revised edition continues to show teachers how they can carefully and systematically ask and answer their own questions about learning. In crisp, jargon-free prose, Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Miller Power present the nuts and bolts of classroom research strategies - interviewing and notetaking techniques, methods for categorizing data, online support, hands-on activities for testing research methods and honing skills, plus much more.

Hubbard and Power have worked for 15 years with teacher-researchers from across the country. In The Art of Classroom Inquiry they give teacher research a human face, from preservice and beginning teachers at work in their classrooms to veterans with suggestions and examples to share. The stories of individual growth demonstrate why and how teacher research is transforming the ways teachers view themselves and their classrooms. And each chapter of this book shows how to get there, including:

• getting started - deciding what to investigate and how to frame questions
• designing the research to fit your area of investigation
• gathering data in the midst of teaching
• making sense of that mountain of data
• reviewing the literature and the implications of others' research on your findings
• converting research for sharing with a wider audience
• creating a teacher-research network and support group.

The Art of Classroom Inquiry can help any aspiring teacher-researcher develop observation and analytical skills. But it is much more than a collection of research techniques - it is a celebration of what is possible in classrooms when teachers pursue answers to their own questions about learning.

Fiske Guide to Getting Into the Right College

Bruce Hammond, Edward Fiske

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Great beginning resource 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

We are just beginning our college search, and based upon prior reviews decided to purchase this book. While I am not sure if I concur with the opinion of the author on how he categorizes certain schools, most of what is written is informative and actually, written in an entertaining way. Many of the other books on the subject are 100s of pages of statistics, in contrast, Fiske provides detailed information and resources in which to expand your search, while making the read entertaining.

For those just beginning the search, this is an invaluable book, cleverly written and informative. I would recommend it as well as other Fiske books on the subject.

Editorial Review:

Nobody knows more about college than Edward B. Fiske, whose annual college guide is consistently ranked at the top of the list. The Fiske Guide To Getting Into The Right College walks students step-by-step through the whole process and shows them how to:
Find the perfect college
Craft a successful application
Write admissions essays that work in their favor
Get the most financial aid
Fiske also reveals why the timing of an application can be so important, and how to get off a waiting list. Unlike other guides, Ted Fiske offers a light touch that is sure to alleviate some of the jitters afflicting the college-bound. Fiske demystifies the secrets of admissions officers and conveys valuable perspective into the college interviewing process. The Fiske Guide To Getting Into The Right College is an invaluable resource for a student making that critical decision.

Analyzing Performance Problems: Or, You Really Oughta Wanna--How to Figure out Why People Aren't Doing What They Should Be, and What to do About It

Robert F. Mager

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A step by step approach 5 out of 5 stars.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful.

I have heard supervisors and managers say over and over how much this book helped them resolve work performance problems without creating hostility. I know it has helped me work through some difficult supervisory challenges. But I also want to note that employees--not just supervisors--have reason to be thankful for it as well.

Mager's approach speaks directly to the issue of not making the assumption that a performance discrepancy is the fault of the employee. Neither is it always the fault of a supervisor or the result of lack of training. Mager and Pipe's book reminds you that there are many reasons for work performance issues, and it is crucial to know the reasons before we order "Improvement, or else!"

Let me also comment on the reviews that refer one instead to Covey and others. Those are fine books and certainly have their value. But they do not tell you how to actually deal with an employee's performance issue when the problem has gone on forever and no one seems to have handled it successfully. Those books inspire you to want to do something and to want to use good methods while doing it. Mager's book, however, tells you, step by step, how to analyze a performance issue and how to work with others to correct it. While you are doing that, you could certainly use Covey's thoughts, One Minute Manager concepts, Who Moved My Cheese principles and anything else that you think will add to your effectiveness.

Robert Mager has a droll style that I find appealing and Peter Pipe adds his well-organized thought processes too. This isn't a feel good book, although it is certainly not a stick and carrot book, as implied by others. It is rather, a toolkit to help supervisors and managers intervene when work is not being done as it should be done, find out why there is a discrepancy, and work with the employee to develop methods for improvement.

Yes, there is a bottom line: At some point work has to improve, or else. But that is one of the things I like about the book: It is realistic and addresses the fact that once barriers to performance have been removed, there is only so long that an employee can be allowed to do substandard work. If you use the flowchart and the material in the book, it isn't likely to come to that point--and that is another reason employees as well as supervisors and managers should appreciate this inexpensive guide.

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Analyzing Performance Problems gives you a step-by-step process for solving virtually any performance problem you face. Instead of guessing at solutions that won't work, you can save time, money, and frustration by finding the true cause of the problem and identifying the best and most economical way to solve it. You'll learn to:

- Identify the true causes of performance problems
- Determine if you can use "fast fixes" (solutions that are quick and easy)
- Identify realistic, economically feasible solutions

Choosing the Right College: 2008-2009: The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools (Choosing the Right College)

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A Thoughtful Beyond the Hype Guide to Colleges 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This is an excellent guide, because it analyzes the curricula of the universities or colleges, to determine whether or not, a true liberal arts education is being fostered. This guide offers insightful analysis and evaluation of the schools, beyond the obvious hype and mindless college summaries, common in the many other directories, such as "the students work hard, but also play hard". In addition, the book evaluates whether or not free speech and political tolerance is honored at the school for all shades of the political spectrum. In summation, this is a very helpful and useful guide to understand what is happening in the classrooms and on the campuses to promote true education and open dialogue or whether free speech is suppressed by a left-wing bias or by overly zealous professors bent on indoctrination and intimidation. There is no other guide on the market that addresses these important questions. One note, however, it is not a comprehensive guide and primarily only the better or well-know schools are evaluated.

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The ISI guide also provides specific advice on which professors to seek out—and which courses and departments to avoid.

 

As an exclusive feature, Choosing the Right College advises students which courses they should take at each school to provide themselves with a true core curriculum. This unique build-your-own-core feature is one more reason that Choosing the Right College has become the most valuable and trusted college guide on the market for students seeking a genuine liberal education.

 

This 2008–9 edition includes essays on thirteen institutions not previously covered: Agnes Scott College, Case Western Reserve University, Centre College, Fordham University, George Washington University, Gettysburg College, University of King’s College (Halifax), Lehigh University, Occidental College, University of Rochester, Trinity Western University (British Columbia), University of Tulsa, and Union College.